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Thursday August 21, 2008
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At a time when some other ethnic and religious groups fear dilution through mixed marriages, the Amish have boosted their numbers by insisting on marriage within the group and providing education at Amish-only schools for 90 percent of their children.In a sign of the spreading population, Amish numbers more than doubled in 10 states. [video]
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Wednesday July 30, 2008
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Members of an upstate New York Amish sect cannot claim that local building codes hinder their religion or give them special standing, a town judge has ruled.
Morristown Town Judge James Phillips Jr. said the cases against eight Amish men will now proceed to trial.
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Monday May 26, 2008
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Members of a small, isolated Amish community are refusing to follow state code in their handling of waste from a school’s two outhouses, citing their religious convictions.
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Wednesday March 19, 2008
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The religious rights of 10 Old Order Amish men are being violated by an upstate New York town that is selectively prosecuting them for building homes without permits, a national public interest group charged Tuesday.
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Friday October 6, 2006
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An unusual word has come to dominate TV coverage of the terrible murders of five girls in a one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. Forgiveness.
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Wednesday October 4, 2006
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Hours after news of a mass shooting of Amish schoolgirls had been flashed around the world, locals with no TVs and radios were still being informed in person of the news. Yet the ‘plain people’ do not live entirely in the past, writes Ed Pilkington. In fact it’s their willingness to adapt that has allowed them to survive, and even prosper, in the 21st century
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The killer who shot dead five girls in a one-room Amish schoolhouse was haunted by guilt over his sexual assault of two young female relatives 20 years ago and dreamed he would abuse again, it emerged yesterday.
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Tuesday October 3, 2006
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In the pickup truck he carried the plastic ties to bind the girls’ ankles, the wooden boards he would use to barricade the doors of the tiny schoolhouse — and an arsenal large enough to hold off an army of cops and carry out the children’s executions. Driven by a grudge that he had nursed for two decades, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, brought an hour of unimaginable terror to a tiny Amish community before he callously shot 11 terrified girls, most of them in the head.
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A fourth girl has died after a brutal Amish schoolhouse shooting in rural Pennsylvania, while seven others remain in critical condition.
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A lone gunman walked into a one-room schoolhouse in a largely Amish community in southeastern Pennsylvania Monday and shot as many as 10 girls, killing three immediately before turning the gun on himself and dying at the scene, according to the state police.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
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MOUNT HOPE, Ohio - The state nabbed Arlie Stutzman in a rare sting, sending an undercover agent to his farm to buy - not drugs - but milk.
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Thursday August 19, 2004
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VIROQUA, Wis. -- A man charged along with three other family members with repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl as she grew up in the Amish community was sentenced to prison Wednesday.
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Wednesday August 11, 2004
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It only took "Amish in the City" housemate Mose one morning in midtown Manhattan to size up the lay of the land.
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Wednesday July 28, 2004
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UPN takes the concept of rudeness to new levels with the two-hour debut of ``Amish in the City,'' tonight at 8 on WSBK (Ch. 38).
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Wednesday July 14, 2004
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A UPN affiliate wants to preview a reality series about Amish teenagers exploring urban life before deciding whether to air it.
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Friday July 9, 2004
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LOS ANGELES - A reality TV series about Amish teenagers exploring the world beyond their community and faith will debut this month despite protests by members of Congress.
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Wednesday April 28, 2004
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Man refused picture I.D. as against his religion
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Wednesday April 21, 2004
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday refused a request to keep an Old Order Amish man in the United States while he challenges an immigration law requiring his photo be taken for entrance into the country.
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Friday April 9, 2004
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An Amish man's religious beliefs -- which prohibit him from having his photo taken are running afoul of anti-terrorism efforts and have prevented him from returning to his home in this country after a visit to Canada.
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Saturday March 6, 2004
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A man belonging to the Old Order Amish who visited his ailing father in Ontario was not being allowed back into the United States because he did not have photo identification, according to officials in Licking Township, a municipality of 475 people midway between Pittsburgh and the New York border.
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Monday February 23, 2004
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- More than 50 members of Congress have asked the corporate overseers of UPN to abandon plans for a reality-format television series featuring Amish teenagers, saying that the depiction of the teens testing their faith in their first big-city experience could harm the sect's culture.
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Wednesday January 21, 2004
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Sect in the city.
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Monday December 8, 2003
Amish:
A whine fills the sawmill and woodchips fly as shiny, jagged teeth eat into a sturdy log being fed by men and teenage boys in Amish dress.
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Friday November 14, 2003
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When the lights went out on the eastern seaboard last August, the historic power failure affected everyone in the area. Everyone, that is, except the Amish, the famously traditional Christian sect that calls itself "the plain people." Since they do not use electricity even when it's available, the Amish continued to heat with coal, oil, or gas, and light their rooms with propane lamps.
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